Improvement in horse-hoes



9,0. MATTESON 8; T. P. WILLIAMSON.

HORSE HOE.

No. 83,719. Patented Nov. 3, 1868.

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Letters Patent No. 83,719, dated November 3. 1868.

INIPROVEMENT IN HORSE-HOES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and mining part of the lame.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, Dos CARLos Msr'rnson and TnUMAnPANn WrnLmuson, of Stockton, in the county of San Joaquin, and State of California, have invented a new and improved Horse-Hoe; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, ibrming part of this specification.

This invention relates to a new and improved horsehoe, designed for cultivating crops grown in hills or drills, by loosening up the earth, and cutting weeds below the surface of the same.

The invention consists in a .novel manner of attaching the cutter to the implement.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings- Figure 1 is a side view of the invention.

Figure 2, a plan or top view of the same.

Figure 3, an inverted plan of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the beam of the implement, the front part of which is supported by a gaugc wheel, B.

To each side of the beam A, near its rear end, there are attached curved bars 0 C, said bars being attached to the beam by a pivot-bolt, a, and the lower ends of these bars are bent inward, or towards each other, to form lips 11 b, on which the cutter D rests, the ends of the cutter being notched to receive the lower parts-of the bars 0 O.

Bolts may pass through'the lips I) and cutter D, to secure the latter in position.

The cutter D is formed of a sheet of steel or iron,

provided with steel edges, the cutter being doubleedged, and each edge slightly convex in a longitudinal direction, as shown in figs. 2 and 3. The bars 0 G are braced and retained in proper position by bars E Efthe front ends of which are attached to the beam, one at each side, by a bolt, 0, the rear ends of the bars Ebeing connected to the bars 0 0, near their centres, by pivot-bolts d.

The fiont ends of the bars E are perforated with a series of holes, through any of which the bolt 6 may pass, and consequently it will be seen that by adjusting the bars E more or less forward, a greater or less rake, or inclination, may be given the cutter D, as desired.

This cutter, as the implement is drawn along, cuts off weeds below the surface of the earth, and loosens or lightens up the same, to render it permeable to air and moisture, and thereby facilitate the growth of the plants.

The cutter, it will be seen, may be reversed in position, either edge adjusted forward, so that when one edge becomes worn by use, the other may be employed, and the cutter may also be adjusted either side uppermost, so that it will be self-sharpening to a certain extent.

F F represent the handles of the implement, the front or lower ends of which have metal plates 0 at tached, which are secured to the beam, each byabolt, f, to admit of the lateral adjustment of the handles. Each handle, F, has a segment-bar, G, secured to and projecting from its inner side.

These bars G lap, one over the other, are perforated, and a screw-bolt, H, attached to the beam, passes through the plates, holding them and the handles in proper position.

. By this arrangement, either handle maybe adjusted more or less inward towards the beam, so as to admit of the implement working quite olose'to trees. (See fig. 2, in which one of the handles is shown adjusted in line with the beam A.)

We claim as new, and desire tc secure by Letters Patent- The combination of the reversible double -edged cutter 1),. the pivoted bars 0 C, and adjustable braces E, with a beam, A, substantially as described.

DON CARLOS MATTESON. TRUMAN PANE WILLIAMSON Witnesses for MATTESON:

WM. F. MCNAMABA, T. B. MOSHER. Witnesses for WILLIAMSON:

B. W. BRUSH, CARLOS W. Mm'rnson. 

